themes, motives

Contains essays that examine frequently taught poems from around the world and throughout history, arranged alphabetically by title from "The Drunken Boat" to "Heritage, " each with reference information, a summary, and discussion of form and devices, and themes and meanings.

Contains essays that examine frequently taught poems from around the world and throughout history, arranged alphabetically by title from "Briggflatts" to "Dreams of the Animals, " each with reference information, a summary, and discussion of form and devices, and themes and meanings.

We learn of his encounters with the vast population that surrounds Leonardo: great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors and pseudohistorians and fantasists; but also how he has grappled with swelling legions of 'Leonardo loonies', walked on the eggshells of vested interests in academia and museums, and fended off fusillades of non-Leonardos, sometimes more than one a week.

"Uses LEGO models to explore Neoclassical, Art Deco, Brutalist, Modernist, and other architectural styles. Each chapter includes a discussion of the architectural movement, photographs of famous real-life buildings, and a gallery of LEGO models, with step-by-step building instructions"--Provided by publisher.

A whimsical introduction to the lives and creative approaches of leading artists imagines snowmen illustrated in the styles of such masters as Georgia O'Keefe, Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock.

"Thirty-seven masterpieces inspire an artist in this introduction to art history that includes a search-and-find game."--Amazon.

Explores sin and redemption in literature, discussing how to write an analysis, and providing overviews of five works, including "Frankenstein," "The Crucible," and "Things Fall Apart.".

Provides readers with an overview of literary works that explore the theme of the American dream. Analyzes poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction that address this theme in some capacity, and how that theme has been treated in literature at different times in history and across diverse cultures.

Analyzes the use of biblical allusions in American literature and film, describing how parallels can be drawn between fictional works and the Bible, and presents examples from C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," Warner Brothers' "The Matrix," and William Golding's "Lord of the Flies.".